PUB00027

• Year: 1990
• Title: Final Report Rio Grande Water Supply Study, Phase 1
• CWCB Section: Interstate & Federal
• Author: San Luis Valley Water Conservancy District
• Description: Reconnaissance level determination of the physically and legally available flow at 4 reservoir sites in the Rio Grande Basin upstream of Del Norte, Colorado
• Publications - Doc Type: Brochure

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION . . .

1.1 BACKGROUND

1.2 STUDY PROCESS

1.2.1 Study Advisors

1.2.2 Study Procedures

1.3 POTENTIAL RESERVOIR SITES

1.3.1 Wagon Wheel Gap Site

1.3.2 Vega Sylvestre Reservoir Site

1.3.3 Rio Grande Mainstem Potential Reservoir Sites

1.3.4 South Fork Potential Reservoir Sites. . . . .

II. BASIN SETTING . . . . . . . . .
11.1 LOCATION AND PHYSIOGRAPHY
11.2 CLIMATE. . .
11.3 WATER SUPPLY
11.4 WATER USE. .
11.4.1 Institutional Setting
11.4.2 History of Water Development
II.4.3 Basin Water Use. . . . . . .

III. WATER RIGHTS ADMINISTRATION
111.1 BACKGROUND . . . . .
111.2 GROUND WATER ADMINISTRATION
111.3 SURFACE WATER ADMINISTRATION

IV. RIO GRANDE COMPACT. . . . . . . . . .
IV.l HISTORY OF COMPACT DEVELOPMENT
IV.2 PURPOSES OF COMPACT. . . . . .
IV.3 SUMMARY OF MAJOR COMPACT PROVISIONS AFFECTING NEW STORAGE
IV.4 COLORADO 1940-1985 OPERATION OF COMPACT
IV.5 PREVIOUS STUDY TREATMENT OF COMPACT. .

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